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Dev Chat Summary: January 11th (4.7.1 week 5)
This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from January 11th (agenda, Slack archive). 4.7.1 Update 4.7.1, led by @aaroncampbell, just launched today (News blog post) 2017 Release Schedule 4.7.1 will NOT be last in the 4.7 branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are…
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Week in Core, January 4th – 10th, 2017
Welcome back the latest issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., covering changes [39666-39758]. Here are the highlights: 93 commits 35 contributors 100 tickets created 8 tickets reopened 80 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on…
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Controlling access to REST API user functionality for multisite
Following last week’s discussion in #core-multisite (read the recap) this week’s office hours agenda was to continue the chat about the multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also…
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Dev Chat Agenda for January 11 (4.7.1 week 5)
This is the agenda for the weekly dev meeting on : Schedule reminder: 4.7.1 scheduled to launch at 2017 releases: 4.7.1 will NOT be last in the 4.7 branchbranch A directory in Subversion. WordPress uses branches to store the latest development code for each major release (3.9, 4.0, etc.). Branches are then updated with code for…
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API Chat Summary: January 9th (4.8 kickoff)
We’ve had an early kickoff meeting for the REST APIREST API The REST API is an acronym for the RESTful Application Program Interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. It is how the front end of an application (think “phone app” or “website”) can communicate with the data store…
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Improving the REST API users endpoint in multisite
One of the objectives for multisitemultisite Used to describe a WordPress installation with a network of multiple blogs, grouped by sites. This installation type has shared users tables, and creates separate database tables for each blog (wp_posts becomes wp_0_posts). See also network, blog, site is sorting how users are managed with the REST APIREST API…
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Dev Chat Summary: January 4th (4.7.1 week 4)
This post summarizes the dev chat meeting from January 4th (agenda, Slack archive). Schedule 4.7.1 will be led by @aaroncampbell with RCrelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). on Friday, January 6th [updated since actual…
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Aaron Campbell Leading Security
@aaroncampbell is now the new lead of security triagetriage The act of evaluating and sorting bug reports, in order to decide priority, severity, and other factors. and resolution for the WordPress project, also known as the Security Czar. Many thanks to Nikolay Bachiyski for kicking this role off and getting a lot of the infrastructure…
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4.7.1 Release Candidate
A Release Candidate for WordPress 4.7.1 is now available. This security and maintenance release fixes 62 issues reported against 4.7 and is scheduled for final release on Wednesday, January 11, 2017. Note this does not address a number of other issues, which are slated for a 4.7.2 release. Thus far WordPress 4.7 has been downloaded over 9 million times since…
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Week in Core, December 14th 2016 – January 3rd, 2017
Welcome back the latest issue issues (sorry) of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress., covering changes [39599-39665]. Here are the highlights: 67 commits 56 contributors 203 tickets created 24 tickets reopened 145 tickets closed Ticketticket Created for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker.…